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Chicago examiner vol x no 308 a m saturday Chicago december 14 1912 saturday registered in u s patent office price one cent flg & 23 u.s to sue to dissolve elgin butter and egg board as trust department of justice charges monopoly boosts prices beyond purses of the poor throughout the country dissolution of combination will have effect of imme diately reducing the prices says the government t-'it to dissolve the elgin butter jok and egg board of Chicago on k the ground that it is a ccmbi * natiou in restraint of trade mil be filed in the next few days by the department of justice according to dispatches from washington the government holds that the con cern which will be attacked under the sherman anti-trust law bears the same relation to the butter trade that the j;ecf trust does to the wholesale and reiail meat industry and the results of the monopoly it has made of one of uie prime necessities of life have been ialt in every home in the country tae proceedings about to be instituted will be founded on evidence which agents â– jt the government have been collecting | for the last ten years uot ouly in Chicago but in every dairy and butter manufactur ing district in the east and west reduce price to poor at the department of justice this prose c-utloo is regarded as the most important from the point of view of the ultimute consumer of auy that has been brought â–º luce the suit against the beef trust and h is said tbat iu this instance the public will really benefit for the officials of the liepartment are convinced that if the board la broken up and destr'-ved it will be im possible to maintain the present prioos of butter which are practically prohibitive to the poor and that the law of supply nu demand will have an opportunity to operate once more control of the output of dairies railroad s'are cold storage rates and other subjects which influence the price of butter have ail ofeen looked iuto by the luvestigators of the department government agents claim to have found bat the elgin board controls the output to he trade almost absolutely and is there fore able to fix prices at any level it chooses the board is an alliance of deal re and manufacturers and while the prin cipal office is in Chicago it is represented throughout the land at present there will be no attempt to proceed against any of the agencies or allied companies outside of Chicago lt is proposed to strike at the head said au official of the department yester uay when we have reached the master mind it will be easy to take up the others seriatum to demand dissolution the action will be ckil it will begin by an application for a temporary order of dissolution to be followed by a per manent order the usual bill iu equity to dissolve a combination in restraint of trade no individuals will be named in the present proceeding we have nothing to fear said charles s bordeu president of the board last iilgrt we have uot done anything wrcng or illegal the government can tile suit if it wishes to do so ibis story that we fli the prices of butter and eggs is so rk'kulous that one should pay no attention to it if there is a business in the world which if not iu combine at tlic preseut time that burinees is among butter and pgg dealers a short ago we abolished ttic issuing of quotations it was said these juotatious fixed the market price we did this because we wanted to se if we could get along without a quotation com mittee the plan has been in operation now for several days and we do uot find the need of the committee on the other band now that the alleged price fixing has been abolished i don't see where the prices have been changed in the least they appear to me to be about the same as ever so where the combina tion comes iu 1 fail to see caesarean operation twice in 13 months first baby lied l ut second is gain j ing while mctlicr is str g i montci.air n 1 dec i twice within thirteen months has the caesarean operation been performed on mrs patrick gpochog surgeons irc deeply inter j ysted in her case it is not often necessary to perform these delicate and dangerous operations ex tremely rarely has it been done tnico on the same woaiau and witbin a period so â– â– brief mrs cicogbegan's baby which was j brought into the world by the lirst caesar j ean operation lived only u tew minutes but thu second baby is a fine boy he tvplgbcd six and a half pounds when he tirst aw the light and is gaining weight at the rate of half a pound h week mrs geoghegan is a tine looking young woman strong and nealtby about four teeu month ago her physician sent her to , st marys hospital iu orange where the caesarean operation was performed khc , was ordered to the hospital again aboul a | ( month ago for the secoud operation j kaiser at luitpolds bier all rulers in german empire to at-j tend bavaria regent's obsequies special c-blr to ths examiner munich dec 13 the announcement i came from berlin 10-day that emperor wil liam accompanied by the rulers of all the kingdoms and principalities of the german empire will attend the funeral of prince luitpold rfgem of bavaria the date has not been fixed an agitation already has been started to depose bo mad king ottoj â€” iu a sanitarium siuÂ«'e his accession â€” and t proclaim the new regent prince i.udwig ! kirg of bavariis in accordance with the bavarian custom the heart of the priucei luitpold was removed embalmed and placed iu a silver casket in the monastery ! of altooting asks heavier auto fines chief mcweeny says 99 out of 100 violate city ordinances nearly niuotyfive out of every one nun 1 dred automobile owners re . 1 ally violators of the city ordinance governing motor ve \ hides according to an assertion of chief i of police mcweeny most i f the violations j concern the use of jights to illuminate | number plates on the rear of automobiles ' he declared assistance in reducing the uumlÂ»er of violations v,u naked of chief justice olson of the municipal court in a communication to jijdge olson yester day chief mcweeny requested the co-op cration of the municipal court judges as n remedy he urged tnat heavier fines be imposed red ties for divorce day court orders attorney to banish black neckpiece on friday 13 edwardsvili.e 111 dec 13.-friday i was r.u nr i day u the madison county circuit court here red neckties were worn in observance of i~e conjunc tion of a divorce default docket and i'riday he thirtteutb when judge hndley went ou the bench he l--d on a red tie as did every other man in the court except c h burton one of the leading members of the bar when he arose to address a jury bis black tie the kind be always wears was conspicuous the judge ordered him to stop pleading until he purchased a red tie 4,457 grays rest here confederate soldiers buried in oak woods cemetery in Chicago washington dec 13 four thousand four hundred and fifty-seven confederate soldiers and sailors lie burled in Chicago of these 4,243 are known these figures are contained in the report of james el i berry special commissioner of the war department who has had the task of marking the graves of confederate dead buried in the north all but two of the i men buried in Chicago are in tlip oakwoods cemetery others buried in Illinois were rock maud 1.961 camp butler s6g al ton 1,041 and mound city k6 carnegie visits Taft preparation of message keeps presl dent prisoner in home washington dec 13 the prepara tion of his message advocating the estab lishment of the budget system for esti mates of department expenses occupied the major part of the president's time to-day j so that he might not be interrupted by callers tht chief executive did not go to the white house offices during the day i andrew carnegie was the only caller ad-j nutted ex-millionaire blames bunker's usury for oebts fred m pease alleges a wil son jefferis financially strangled him wife's jewels are held locomotive manufacturer swears he paid 43 pei cent interest on loans a onetime millionaire manufacturer who alleges lie was financially strangled by a private banker told yesterday how he aid usury upon accumulated usury for twelve year bow he went steadily deeper iuto debt until even bis personal property au-1 the jewels of his wife were locked in tlie private banker's vaults these state ments are pet forth by fred m prase in a cross complaint filed by him against a wilson jefferis and mary jefferis conduct ing a private bank as a firm the sworn statement made by pease charges methods outdoing the salary loan shark who collects 10 per cent u mouth in h dealings with a banking firm which requires security for its loans pease's story has yet to stand the test of a court trial but the allegations he makes are backed by bis oatb lie declares that he signed four notes for amounts aggregating 13,954.l'0 all on one day and that every cent of the money was for accumulated usury he declares that be was compelled to pay as high as 4p per cent interest in some cases giving judgment notes in each case granting power of attorney to confess judgment for him granting exorbitant attorney's fees in advance and the 1i!,984.20 transaction be says was merely one of many â€” so many that he says he cannot remember them all nor estimate the amount of nioupy he has . paid j manufacturer needed l\!oney i this is a condensation of pease's story jn november 1000 i was eugaged in the manufacture and sale of railroad loco motives and cars in ciiicago and i needed some money a wilson jefferis and mary jefferis were private bankers with offices in the monadnock block i borrowed from them from that time to the present i have borrowed frequently from them giving a large number of notes i ' have paid a great deal of money on these notes but i cannot tell without au accounting the ' aggregate araonnt of the notes and the , payments it amounts to several hundreds i of thousands of dollars and i know that i the payments have been greatly in excess i of the money actually borrowed there was always a big difference be tween the amount of money i got and the amount named in the note the difference was usury the notes themselves called â– j for 7 per cent interest but the 7 per cent ! was simply iu addition to the usury which i was collected in advance in 1908 i opened a checking account with the jefferis bank and i kept it until november of this year so in addi tiou to the usury ihey got by deducting i.'ouey from the race of the notes they made me pay additional usury required ! me to give them checks against my ac ' count with them claims no cancellations wiien the notes woul.j mature jefreris | would make me give him new uotis with | additional usury and he neved canceled ' ! nor returned the old ones most of them j were judgment lotes only two weeks ago 1 jefferis took judgment n one of these notes â€” it was for something over 7.000 and there was a 200 attorneys fee at tached most of the attorney's fees speci fied were similarly extortionate one of i them was 725 the fee for an attorney to ' igo into court and confess a judgment i j another of the attorney's fees named was i 4j3 and there was a 10 attorney's fee , attached to a note for 1 in july 1008 i turned over to jefferis some jewelry and keepsakes worth about i l.rÂ«(x and also a bos containing personal papers and accounts these were simply left at the bank for safe keeping now 1 jpfferis won't let me have them he won't even let me examine the couteuts of j i the box : more security demanded ! it w;is in o'-tober 1009 that jefferis i demanded that i put up more security j for what i owed him the amount had been steadily growing because of the j usury i was being charged so i put up a 10,000 bond secured by a second mortgage on some real estate i was seriously embarrassed financially simply had to have money to carry on my business and jefferis took advantage of my predicament because he could there were judgments against me amount ins to about 400,000 naturally that . hurt my credit and i could not get'inoney at the regular banks i had to go to jefferis and the excessive interest he charged mo amounts to a great many thousands of dollars what i want to do is to get an arcounting suit is pending now against pease for ; the 13.984.'j0 which be says is nothing but accumulated usury he filed hi.s answer j yesterday denying that be owes the i j money and at the same time lie flletl | la cross bill demanding an accoaullu nuil a restitution of all njunry lll^hl'v i'o lected ' . mrs m'cormick victim of seer sued by 2 wives widow of reaper inventor tells how gorham tufts bested money from her r society awaits trial mis jennie roe to aid first bride in fight to annul decree mrs nettie 1 mccormick widow of . cyrus 11 mccormick inventor of the , reaper was oue of many Chicago society i women who contributed money to gorhara i tufts jr teacher of occult science i mrs mccormick like others heeded tufts plea for money to aid his scheme of uplift and mrs mccormick even responded to a hard luck story by tufts and gave him more than loo to hiive his teeth fixed interest iu the affairs of tufts now im prisoned lit los angeles is renewed among the women of Chicago who met and aided j him by the suit of his first wife mrs j mary 11 tufts who ou tuesday will ask j judge mckinley to nuul the divorce granted the former missionary following this divorce tufts married mrs jennie s roe widow of a million i aire texas lumberman who is now suing for divorce and who will aid the first mrs tufts in her suit tufts will answer the 1 suits from iris cell as he cannot leave los angeles pending an appeal for a new trial on a charge of forgery he was found guilty and sentenced u three years im prisonment mrs mccormick said last night that her sympathy had been aroused by an appeal lof tuftf and she had contributed funds ito aid in the upkeep of a mission home conducted by him at d9 plymouth place mrs mccormick contributed tufts came to me several years ago and tried to interest me in the work he was conducting for vagrant boys as he : staled said mrs mccormlek i do not j reneinber the exact amount that i gave ! i also supplied all the plumbing for the i building when ho went to india as a mission j ary he asked me to contribute but i re \ fused because 1 did not know anything about bis society upon his return to [ Chicago a few years ago le came to me and told uik that his tei'tu wcra in veiy : bad shape and that he suffered great pain ho pleaded with me to give him the money to have them fixed i gave him more than 100 at that time and have not seen ! or heard of him since many of the missing details of the ao tivities of the occult science teacher were told yesterday mrs birdie e link 1 former worker at the institution which tufts conducted at 50 plymojfb place anil widow of the former president of a rail road which has since been consolidated with the baltimore & ohio knew of many of tufts peculiarities filled with vanity i met tufts in isul r.t a revival near new albany ind said mrs fink he seemed very interested iu ihe work and i thought him u very sincere and zealous young man i noticed at the time that he had some peculiar habits however on sunday he would change his suits five or â– sis times his vanity was so great when he came to Chicago in 1893 he wrote to me to come to this city uud assist him in the work of the open door mission which he had opened in dear born street near polk he told me that he would be able to dispose of some gowns i had which were worth about 1,800 i thought that the money could be used in the wort and told him to sell them he i!'il 60 i'm t<t told me that he had Â„ -.. ii -- 1 t-i Â„,; ihcm ambassador reid ill condition is critical doctors fear cancer stricken envoy v/ife and daughter physicians id confeience at dorchester mouse suffers j from complication special cable fo the examiner ' london dec 13 whitelaw keid united states ambassador to the court of st james is seriously ill in dorchester house here a statement sent out from the embassy late to-day and which was not altered to night contained a hopeful note it said mr reid's condition has given rise to some anxiety in the last day or two on account of the exhausting effects of the malady but his physicians authorize the statement that his condition now is encour aging he has taken a slight turn for the better this afternoon and is resting easier it is rumored that specialists have dis covered a cancerous growth has been 111 for some time mr reid has been ill for some time but the first cause for public uneasiness was his failure to appear ;! t the thanksgiving day celebration in london a function which he has always directed since his residence in england and which generally has been the occasion of some important utterance on his part whitelaw reid was born october 27 1837 near xenia o his father was u scotch covenanter ruling elder and one of the pioneers from kentucky who crossed into the wilderness of southern ohio in j 1800 mr keid graduated from miami university in 1836 and when a very young | man entered political life and engaged in ' newspaper work he was editor of the xenia news the cincinnati gazette libra i rian of the house of representatives and in 1808 joined the staff of the new york tribune when horace iheelley died mr ' reid became the principal owner of the tribune he wns nominated for the vice presi dency by the republican national conven tion in 1802 and in 1597 be was appointed 1 siecial ambassador to ureat britain for queen victoria's diamond jubilee one of spanish war commissioners the following year ie was appointed ope of the peace commissioners of the united stales to negotiate the treaty wi,th spain in paris he was envoy extraor dinary of this country at tiie coronation of king edward vii of england and he was ; chosen to succeed joseph h choate as ambassador to great britain eight years ago on the 2sth ol this month mr ijeid married elizabeth the daugh ter of darius ogden mills the california and nc\v york millionaire aiiu philanthro pist by marriage he is closely related to some of the most socially and financially j influential families in the world his sis ter-in-law is mrs ogdju mills who with the vanderbilta nnd astors are the shirting lights of american society mrs mills twin daughters gladys and beatrice ar among the leaders of the younger social set in this country and england beatrice married the earl of granard close friend j of king george and glodys is now the i nife of henry carnegie phipps son ofj i henry phipps one time partner of au-i i drew carnegie j whitelaw reid mrs wlulela to reid mrs john ward sen works pleads to free slayer asks pardon for brother-in law who killed wife's tradticer i indianapolis ind dec 13 united states senator joun d works of califor nia in a letter to tue state pardon board to-day made a powerful plea for the im mediate parole of his brotuer-in law charles 10 van pelt who is serving an indeteruiiuate sentence of from two to twenty-one years in the state penitentiary at michigan city for manslaughter van pelt who is the husband of sena tor work's favorite sister shot and killed charles h tindall a prominent lawyer of snelbyvihc and member of the supreme executive committee of the court of honor he alleged tindall liad hounded mrs van i'elt because of an alleged shortage in her accounts as recorder for the shelbyville blanch of that organization a letter also urging clemency was re ceived from senator john w kern of in diana these were fupplemented by a petition signed by 1,173 residents of sht-lby county friends and relatives of tindall re de termined that van i'elt shall not be given his liberty until the minimum sentence has been servod he has eleven months more before that is completed after a trial in which the temporary insanity plea was advanced by the attor neys fur the defense van pelt began his term november jl 1911 testimony showed van pelt had shot tindall twice after waiting near a drag store that tindall passed that tlndali a an officer in control of the court of honor ix>dge had brought charges pub licly against mrs van pelt that she was short in her accounts and had burned her records was also introduced it was shown that mrs van pelt had been ex onerated of the charges of embezzlement d bad been re-elected to her position , stock sales on exchange pure gambles says sturgis financiers reveal how pools manipulate share prices by short sales which are defended in u s inquiry match orders condemned as witnesses bare morgan printing monopoly that yields 2,000 profit a day j i rock island and hocking pool members punished because they split commissions and failed defy suits washington dec 13.â€”follow ing the damaging admissions as to the character of much of the trading oil the new york stock exchange yesterday from frank k sturgis a former president of thai organization these additional adrnia sions were secured to-day from ru dolph keppler another former presi dent mr sturgis and other witnesses j by samuel vntermyer counsel for the house money trust investigating com niittei 1 ". j that short selling which >â™¦ forms a considerable part of the transactions on the ex change is gambling pure and i simple 2 that exchange members gen â™¦ erally consider any kind of manipulations of stocks legitimate so long as the commissions art paid to the brokers 3 that the new york stock ex * change clearing house acts solely for its members and merely in ths capacity of an auditing de partment 4 that actual stock certificate â™¦ are not used on the stock exchange and that transfers ape arranged by clearing house tickets 5 that favoritism of the new â™¦ york stock exchange for the american bank note com pany in which j pierpont mor gan is a heavy stockholder en ables that engraving concern to hold a monopoly on the engrav ing of listed securities thereby reaping a profit of 2,000 a day or 730,000 a year 6 that the stock exchange de â™¦ fies suit for damages be cause it is not incorporated gambling is admitted sturgis said tbat the members who were disciplined for their participation in the rock island pool incurred the dl pleasure of the governors solely becauw they split commissions j asked about the moral aspect of short selling sturgis replied sourly i it is not my business to nrge moral re forms upon the community the hearing was adjourned at 4 o'clock ' until monday morning mr untermyef leaving for now york | keppler sparred with mr untermyer lot ' some fuuo before lie could be led to ad mit that gambling existed on the ciehange he declared that manipulations of stock was infrequent now but said it was proper so long as there was no collusion it was legally conducted and the commissione were paid all witnesses bore down hard ou tu necessity of paying the commissions do you agree with the conclusions of the hughes commission that a substantial part of the transactions on the stock ex change are gambling suddenly demanded mr untermyer i want a direct an â– swer wash sales condemned well said mr keppler hesitatingly i would say that some transactions or the stock exchange are somewhat of a gambling nature what do you think of the character of cross sales aked mr unterinyer i think them legitimate so long as taere are no wash sales or matched orders to the transaction replied mr keppler v.hen asked what he know about tb chid market mr eeppler answered shortly that he kne.v nothing about it whatsoever nis inawer v as so abrupt that even his counsel john g stiltmrn smiled mr t stjrtl recalled for examination vanderbilts avoid clash wife no 1 learns successor and husband sail on her steamer new youk dec l mrs elsie french ' vanderbilt and bei ou master william \ henry vanderbilt came near being pas ieagers on the same steamship wblcb ill take mr and mrs alfred g vanderbilt to england sailing december ]". it was lÂ»y roimng a society paragraph in a newspaper ; tbat mrs vanderliih tainted her former boabaud nnd bis second wife the former mrs mckirn were returuinz to europe oa the steamer she and ier son were booked to sail upon so llie reservation was immediately changed to a steamer sailing to-morrow ijv.w the a?.-oe nt;on o american a'dver llr"__f 'â€¢- ers has cxaru.ned and certified to 4 ihe circulation of thi publication the f.gures o circulat.on conla.nej n the i;:iit:cn's report only ate guaranteed r>;sonat:oii el american adtertisen i\o ssot whitah.au bide n v cuy important notice to contestants Chicago examiner 12,000 popularity contest on the stroke of ten p m december 16th contest closes get your subscriptions in to-day â€” and early monday Chicago and vicinity _____^^^^^^^^ â€” fair saturday and sunday st moderate temperature mod ftl erate southwest winds â€” c^^sf^ey rauge of temperatures yettcr " ljt jay tvÂ§iipsi highest 4 d y'^snow lowest is â€¢Â£> j o y average i ' 1 __^___

Chicago examiner vol x no 308 a m saturday Chicago december 14 1912 saturday registered in u s patent office price one cent flg & 23 u.s to sue to dissolve elgin butter and egg board as trust department of justice charges monopoly boosts prices beyond purses of the poor throughout the country dissolution of combination will have effect of imme diately reducing the prices says the government t-'it to dissolve the elgin butter jok and egg board of Chicago on k the ground that it is a ccmbi * natiou in restraint of trade mil be filed in the next few days by the department of justice according to dispatches from washington the government holds that the con cern which will be attacked under the sherman anti-trust law bears the same relation to the butter trade that the j;ecf trust does to the wholesale and reiail meat industry and the results of the monopoly it has made of one of uie prime necessities of life have been ialt in every home in the country tae proceedings about to be instituted will be founded on evidence which agents â– jt the government have been collecting | for the last ten years uot ouly in Chicago but in every dairy and butter manufactur ing district in the east and west reduce price to poor at the department of justice this prose c-utloo is regarded as the most important from the point of view of the ultimute consumer of auy that has been brought â–º luce the suit against the beef trust and h is said tbat iu this instance the public will really benefit for the officials of the liepartment are convinced that if the board la broken up and destr'-ved it will be im possible to maintain the present prioos of butter which are practically prohibitive to the poor and that the law of supply nu demand will have an opportunity to operate once more control of the output of dairies railroad s'are cold storage rates and other subjects which influence the price of butter have ail ofeen looked iuto by the luvestigators of the department government agents claim to have found bat the elgin board controls the output to he trade almost absolutely and is there fore able to fix prices at any level it chooses the board is an alliance of deal re and manufacturers and while the prin cipal office is in Chicago it is represented throughout the land at present there will be no attempt to proceed against any of the agencies or allied companies outside of Chicago lt is proposed to strike at the head said au official of the department yester uay when we have reached the master mind it will be easy to take up the others seriatum to demand dissolution the action will be ckil it will begin by an application for a temporary order of dissolution to be followed by a per manent order the usual bill iu equity to dissolve a combination in restraint of trade no individuals will be named in the present proceeding we have nothing to fear said charles s bordeu president of the board last iilgrt we have uot done anything wrcng or illegal the government can tile suit if it wishes to do so ibis story that we fli the prices of butter and eggs is so rk'kulous that one should pay no attention to it if there is a business in the world which if not iu combine at tlic preseut time that burinees is among butter and pgg dealers a short ago we abolished ttic issuing of quotations it was said these juotatious fixed the market price we did this because we wanted to se if we could get along without a quotation com mittee the plan has been in operation now for several days and we do uot find the need of the committee on the other band now that the alleged price fixing has been abolished i don't see where the prices have been changed in the least they appear to me to be about the same as ever so where the combina tion comes iu 1 fail to see caesarean operation twice in 13 months first baby lied l ut second is gain j ing while mctlicr is str g i montci.air n 1 dec i twice within thirteen months has the caesarean operation been performed on mrs patrick gpochog surgeons irc deeply inter j ysted in her case it is not often necessary to perform these delicate and dangerous operations ex tremely rarely has it been done tnico on the same woaiau and witbin a period so â– â– brief mrs cicogbegan's baby which was j brought into the world by the lirst caesar j ean operation lived only u tew minutes but thu second baby is a fine boy he tvplgbcd six and a half pounds when he tirst aw the light and is gaining weight at the rate of half a pound h week mrs geoghegan is a tine looking young woman strong and nealtby about four teeu month ago her physician sent her to , st marys hospital iu orange where the caesarean operation was performed khc , was ordered to the hospital again aboul a | ( month ago for the secoud operation j kaiser at luitpolds bier all rulers in german empire to at-j tend bavaria regent's obsequies special c-blr to ths examiner munich dec 13 the announcement i came from berlin 10-day that emperor wil liam accompanied by the rulers of all the kingdoms and principalities of the german empire will attend the funeral of prince luitpold rfgem of bavaria the date has not been fixed an agitation already has been started to depose bo mad king ottoj â€” iu a sanitarium siuÂ«'e his accession â€” and t proclaim the new regent prince i.udwig ! kirg of bavariis in accordance with the bavarian custom the heart of the priucei luitpold was removed embalmed and placed iu a silver casket in the monastery ! of altooting asks heavier auto fines chief mcweeny says 99 out of 100 violate city ordinances nearly niuotyfive out of every one nun 1 dred automobile owners re . 1 ally violators of the city ordinance governing motor ve \ hides according to an assertion of chief i of police mcweeny most i f the violations j concern the use of jights to illuminate | number plates on the rear of automobiles ' he declared assistance in reducing the uumlÂ»er of violations v,u naked of chief justice olson of the municipal court in a communication to jijdge olson yester day chief mcweeny requested the co-op cration of the municipal court judges as n remedy he urged tnat heavier fines be imposed red ties for divorce day court orders attorney to banish black neckpiece on friday 13 edwardsvili.e 111 dec 13.-friday i was r.u nr i day u the madison county circuit court here red neckties were worn in observance of i~e conjunc tion of a divorce default docket and i'riday he thirtteutb when judge hndley went ou the bench he l--d on a red tie as did every other man in the court except c h burton one of the leading members of the bar when he arose to address a jury bis black tie the kind be always wears was conspicuous the judge ordered him to stop pleading until he purchased a red tie 4,457 grays rest here confederate soldiers buried in oak woods cemetery in Chicago washington dec 13 four thousand four hundred and fifty-seven confederate soldiers and sailors lie burled in Chicago of these 4,243 are known these figures are contained in the report of james el i berry special commissioner of the war department who has had the task of marking the graves of confederate dead buried in the north all but two of the i men buried in Chicago are in tlip oakwoods cemetery others buried in Illinois were rock maud 1.961 camp butler s6g al ton 1,041 and mound city k6 carnegie visits Taft preparation of message keeps presl dent prisoner in home washington dec 13 the prepara tion of his message advocating the estab lishment of the budget system for esti mates of department expenses occupied the major part of the president's time to-day j so that he might not be interrupted by callers tht chief executive did not go to the white house offices during the day i andrew carnegie was the only caller ad-j nutted ex-millionaire blames bunker's usury for oebts fred m pease alleges a wil son jefferis financially strangled him wife's jewels are held locomotive manufacturer swears he paid 43 pei cent interest on loans a onetime millionaire manufacturer who alleges lie was financially strangled by a private banker told yesterday how he aid usury upon accumulated usury for twelve year bow he went steadily deeper iuto debt until even bis personal property au-1 the jewels of his wife were locked in tlie private banker's vaults these state ments are pet forth by fred m prase in a cross complaint filed by him against a wilson jefferis and mary jefferis conduct ing a private bank as a firm the sworn statement made by pease charges methods outdoing the salary loan shark who collects 10 per cent u mouth in h dealings with a banking firm which requires security for its loans pease's story has yet to stand the test of a court trial but the allegations he makes are backed by bis oatb lie declares that he signed four notes for amounts aggregating 13,954.l'0 all on one day and that every cent of the money was for accumulated usury he declares that be was compelled to pay as high as 4p per cent interest in some cases giving judgment notes in each case granting power of attorney to confess judgment for him granting exorbitant attorney's fees in advance and the 1i!,984.20 transaction be says was merely one of many â€” so many that he says he cannot remember them all nor estimate the amount of nioupy he has . paid j manufacturer needed l\!oney i this is a condensation of pease's story jn november 1000 i was eugaged in the manufacture and sale of railroad loco motives and cars in ciiicago and i needed some money a wilson jefferis and mary jefferis were private bankers with offices in the monadnock block i borrowed from them from that time to the present i have borrowed frequently from them giving a large number of notes i ' have paid a great deal of money on these notes but i cannot tell without au accounting the ' aggregate araonnt of the notes and the , payments it amounts to several hundreds i of thousands of dollars and i know that i the payments have been greatly in excess i of the money actually borrowed there was always a big difference be tween the amount of money i got and the amount named in the note the difference was usury the notes themselves called â– j for 7 per cent interest but the 7 per cent ! was simply iu addition to the usury which i was collected in advance in 1908 i opened a checking account with the jefferis bank and i kept it until november of this year so in addi tiou to the usury ihey got by deducting i.'ouey from the race of the notes they made me pay additional usury required ! me to give them checks against my ac ' count with them claims no cancellations wiien the notes woul.j mature jefreris | would make me give him new uotis with | additional usury and he neved canceled ' ! nor returned the old ones most of them j were judgment lotes only two weeks ago 1 jefferis took judgment n one of these notes â€” it was for something over 7.000 and there was a 200 attorneys fee at tached most of the attorney's fees speci fied were similarly extortionate one of i them was 725 the fee for an attorney to ' igo into court and confess a judgment i j another of the attorney's fees named was i 4j3 and there was a 10 attorney's fee , attached to a note for 1 in july 1008 i turned over to jefferis some jewelry and keepsakes worth about i l.rÂ«(x and also a bos containing personal papers and accounts these were simply left at the bank for safe keeping now 1 jpfferis won't let me have them he won't even let me examine the couteuts of j i the box : more security demanded ! it w;is in o'-tober 1009 that jefferis i demanded that i put up more security j for what i owed him the amount had been steadily growing because of the j usury i was being charged so i put up a 10,000 bond secured by a second mortgage on some real estate i was seriously embarrassed financially simply had to have money to carry on my business and jefferis took advantage of my predicament because he could there were judgments against me amount ins to about 400,000 naturally that . hurt my credit and i could not get'inoney at the regular banks i had to go to jefferis and the excessive interest he charged mo amounts to a great many thousands of dollars what i want to do is to get an arcounting suit is pending now against pease for ; the 13.984.'j0 which be says is nothing but accumulated usury he filed hi.s answer j yesterday denying that be owes the i j money and at the same time lie flletl | la cross bill demanding an accoaullu nuil a restitution of all njunry lll^hl'v i'o lected ' . mrs m'cormick victim of seer sued by 2 wives widow of reaper inventor tells how gorham tufts bested money from her r society awaits trial mis jennie roe to aid first bride in fight to annul decree mrs nettie 1 mccormick widow of . cyrus 11 mccormick inventor of the , reaper was oue of many Chicago society i women who contributed money to gorhara i tufts jr teacher of occult science i mrs mccormick like others heeded tufts plea for money to aid his scheme of uplift and mrs mccormick even responded to a hard luck story by tufts and gave him more than loo to hiive his teeth fixed interest iu the affairs of tufts now im prisoned lit los angeles is renewed among the women of Chicago who met and aided j him by the suit of his first wife mrs j mary 11 tufts who ou tuesday will ask j judge mckinley to nuul the divorce granted the former missionary following this divorce tufts married mrs jennie s roe widow of a million i aire texas lumberman who is now suing for divorce and who will aid the first mrs tufts in her suit tufts will answer the 1 suits from iris cell as he cannot leave los angeles pending an appeal for a new trial on a charge of forgery he was found guilty and sentenced u three years im prisonment mrs mccormick said last night that her sympathy had been aroused by an appeal lof tuftf and she had contributed funds ito aid in the upkeep of a mission home conducted by him at d9 plymouth place mrs mccormick contributed tufts came to me several years ago and tried to interest me in the work he was conducting for vagrant boys as he : staled said mrs mccormlek i do not j reneinber the exact amount that i gave ! i also supplied all the plumbing for the i building when ho went to india as a mission j ary he asked me to contribute but i re \ fused because 1 did not know anything about bis society upon his return to [ Chicago a few years ago le came to me and told uik that his tei'tu wcra in veiy : bad shape and that he suffered great pain ho pleaded with me to give him the money to have them fixed i gave him more than 100 at that time and have not seen ! or heard of him since many of the missing details of the ao tivities of the occult science teacher were told yesterday mrs birdie e link 1 former worker at the institution which tufts conducted at 50 plymojfb place anil widow of the former president of a rail road which has since been consolidated with the baltimore & ohio knew of many of tufts peculiarities filled with vanity i met tufts in isul r.t a revival near new albany ind said mrs fink he seemed very interested iu ihe work and i thought him u very sincere and zealous young man i noticed at the time that he had some peculiar habits however on sunday he would change his suits five or â– sis times his vanity was so great when he came to Chicago in 1893 he wrote to me to come to this city uud assist him in the work of the open door mission which he had opened in dear born street near polk he told me that he would be able to dispose of some gowns i had which were worth about 1,800 i thought that the money could be used in the wort and told him to sell them he i!'il 60 i'm tdge had brought charges pub licly against mrs van pelt that she was short in her accounts and had burned her records was also introduced it was shown that mrs van pelt had been ex onerated of the charges of embezzlement d bad been re-elected to her position , stock sales on exchange pure gambles says sturgis financiers reveal how pools manipulate share prices by short sales which are defended in u s inquiry match orders condemned as witnesses bare morgan printing monopoly that yields 2,000 profit a day j i rock island and hocking pool members punished because they split commissions and failed defy suits washington dec 13.â€”follow ing the damaging admissions as to the character of much of the trading oil the new york stock exchange yesterday from frank k sturgis a former president of thai organization these additional adrnia sions were secured to-day from ru dolph keppler another former presi dent mr sturgis and other witnesses j by samuel vntermyer counsel for the house money trust investigating com niittei 1 ". j that short selling which >â™¦ forms a considerable part of the transactions on the ex change is gambling pure and i simple 2 that exchange members gen â™¦ erally consider any kind of manipulations of stocks legitimate so long as the commissions art paid to the brokers 3 that the new york stock ex * change clearing house acts solely for its members and merely in ths capacity of an auditing de partment 4 that actual stock certificate â™¦ are not used on the stock exchange and that transfers ape arranged by clearing house tickets 5 that favoritism of the new â™¦ york stock exchange for the american bank note com pany in which j pierpont mor gan is a heavy stockholder en ables that engraving concern to hold a monopoly on the engrav ing of listed securities thereby reaping a profit of 2,000 a day or 730,000 a year 6 that the stock exchange de â™¦ fies suit for damages be cause it is not incorporated gambling is admitted sturgis said tbat the members who were disciplined for their participation in the rock island pool incurred the dl pleasure of the governors solely becauw they split commissions j asked about the moral aspect of short selling sturgis replied sourly i it is not my business to nrge moral re forms upon the community the hearing was adjourned at 4 o'clock ' until monday morning mr untermyef leaving for now york | keppler sparred with mr untermyer lot ' some fuuo before lie could be led to ad mit that gambling existed on the ciehange he declared that manipulations of stock was infrequent now but said it was proper so long as there was no collusion it was legally conducted and the commissione were paid all witnesses bore down hard ou tu necessity of paying the commissions do you agree with the conclusions of the hughes commission that a substantial part of the transactions on the stock ex change are gambling suddenly demanded mr untermyer i want a direct an â– swer wash sales condemned well said mr keppler hesitatingly i would say that some transactions or the stock exchange are somewhat of a gambling nature what do you think of the character of cross sales aked mr unterinyer i think them legitimate so long as taere are no wash sales or matched orders to the transaction replied mr keppler v.hen asked what he know about tb chid market mr eeppler answered shortly that he kne.v nothing about it whatsoever nis inawer v as so abrupt that even his counsel john g stiltmrn smiled mr t stjrtl recalled for examination vanderbilts avoid clash wife no 1 learns successor and husband sail on her steamer new youk dec l mrs elsie french ' vanderbilt and bei ou master william \ henry vanderbilt came near being pas ieagers on the same steamship wblcb ill take mr and mrs alfred g vanderbilt to england sailing december ]". it was lÂ»y roimng a society paragraph in a newspaper ; tbat mrs vanderliih tainted her former boabaud nnd bis second wife the former mrs mckirn were returuinz to europe oa the steamer she and ier son were booked to sail upon so llie reservation was immediately changed to a steamer sailing to-morrow ijv.w the a?.-oe nt;on o american a'dver llr"__f 'â€¢- ers has cxaru.ned and certified to 4 ihe circulation of thi publication the f.gures o circulat.on conla.nej n the i;:iit:cn's report only ate guaranteed r>;sonat:oii el american adtertisen i\o ssot whitah.au bide n v cuy important 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